Posted on 10/03/2003 11:02:13 AM PDT by hoosierskypilot
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if it were the latter. OR maybe he is waiting to quash it until AFTER the Oct. 7 election. That way, RUSH is still the issue and Davis and Bustamante can't make any headway against Arnold OR Tom, causing the LOSS of both Davis and Bustamante.
It is also not a bad idea to wait until whatever claims or charges are fully stated so you can properly defend yourself, no matter whether they are true or false.
Then why hasn't he said so?
Because even *that* can be spun to sound bad.
For example, just look at how many people on these threads have declared, "if he hired a defense lawyer, it must be because he's guilty". The news media can play that same game, endlessly playing soundbites of Rush saying on his show, "my lawyer tells me...", which sounds bad enough by itself, and even worse when it's used as an excuse for CNN et al to follow it with panels of "legal experts" saying, "well, my advice for how Limbaugh could avoid a long prison term would be..."
Truly, it's best to not feed the jackals more raw meat.
I agree with YOU. By Rush saying "trust me," I think HE was on the RIGHT side...on the RIGHT as usual. He sounded CONFIDENT (NOT arrogant) that he KNOWS it is going to turn out okay.
I wonder if Rush was used by the Police to be part of a STING of OTHERS, not him. They would have needed to have the "illegal drugs" go to/through someone who people would have KNOWN had plenty of money to afford to buy them and apparently had a "NEED" for them.
OR maybe RUSH contacted the Police after his housekeeper BRAGGED about having access to "illegal drugs" and OFFERED HIM drugs and he WILLINGLY "played the part" in order to STING the bad guys. Wouldn't it just be FUNNY if the drug-dealers were PROMINENT RATS that end up getting caught through Rush's COOPERATION!!!
I just DO NOT believe that Rush is either a drug dealer or illegal drug user...PERIOD!
SPECTRE RESPONDED: "Could this mean that when Rush ultimately finds out exactly who is behind this smear campaign, it will open up a Pandora's box that the public may not want to hear about? That's my translation of what he is trying to tell us."
SPECTRE ADDED: "It isn't going to be pretty, when Rush exposes the truth behind this story, IMHO."
I am beginning to think it is NOT REALLY a SMEAR campaign against RUSH, but that it is being made out to LOOK that way, in order to STING some really PROMINENT figures or halt a HUGE drug ring.
Rush just sounded too confident/assured (but NOT arrogant) to make me think HE did anything wrong. It seemed like he was "playing dumb" to buy time for the whole STING to come to fruition.
Drink the Kool-Aid dude! How did he get in it? The sherrifs department came on him while investigating a drug ring.
Did it never occur to you that if his housekeeper (or her sleazy husband) was running drugs for *other* people, Limbaugh would naturally be interested in whether he might have seen or heard anything that, in retrospect, might be helpful to the investigation?
Furthermore, her "Limbaugh was one of my clients!" claim may well be an attempt by her to get herself off the hook by giving them a "bigger fish", whether or not he actually had done anything wrong. This is a problem the police run into all the time -- they catch a sleazebag in a crime, and the sleazebag makes up a semi-plausible story about someone "bigger" to trade for leniancy. In this case, the fact that the woman was Limbaugh's housekeeper makes her story plausible, *even if it's not true*.
There are so many possibilities you have utterly failed to even consider.
Are you aware that he suddenly lost virtually all of his hearing some time back and had to have a cochlear (sp?) implant? The implant is NOT failsafe and it still takes a split second or two for him to understand what someone has just said so he can respond to it.
My Mom has been hard of hearing all my life (she is basically deaf without her hearing aids) and from time to time, she will THINK you asked one thing when you ACTUALLY asked something else, or she may not hear you at all, resulting in a long pause. It can lead to some strange answers. It usually happens when her batteries run out of juice.
Then, if the press digs up some guy from twenty years ago who says, "I remember once when we were on a fishing trip, Rush sprained his ankle pretty bad so I gave him one of my prescription painkillers I had for my back", you've just been proven a "liar", the press spends the next week speculating about how much of the rest of your denial was a calculated lie, etc. etc. Congratulations, Einstein.
From another thread, a post by Freeper CMAC51:
Because even if Rush is totally innocent, this whole business is a serious matter. Only a fool wood start making statements when even the smallest detail in the statement can be questioned and perhaps used to challenge the credability of the overall statement.Fore more examples, check out almost any book by Massad Ayoob, the self-defense expert. He often describes cases where someone on trial for a righteous self-defense shooting (including many police officers) got their genitals in a legal wringer by opening their mouth once too often.I have been there, roped into a situation I had no idea existed. Some of my most forthright statements at the time created the most trouble because I didn't know the overall picture. The bottom line was that I had nothing to do with it and that was eventually demonstrated, but the greatest amount of trauma came from statements I made which were totally honest, totally true and totally foolish to make at the time.
Then, if the press digs up some guy from twenty years ago who says, "I remember once when we were on a fishing trip, Rush sprained his ankle pretty bad so I gave him one of my prescription painkillers I had for my back", you've just been proven a "liar", the press spends the next week speculating about how much of the rest of your denial was a calculated lie, etc. etc. Congratulations, Einstein.
Oh yeah, that'll make big news. You bet, that would be earth shattering news, I'm sure that would make all the networks, and prove once and for all, Rush is a big fat liar and that any and all statement made by Rush will be suspect.......LOL....
Thanks for the laugh professor....
Well, rags, I've listened to Rush for some time. I even was inclined (still am to a point) to believe there's something to the charge, until I heard him speak today.
It's all very subjective and until more facts come out nothing is "perfectly clear".
BINGO!!!
That is basically what I am thinking...a STING that he was a WILLING PARTICIPANT in to HELP the Police pull it off---against OTHERS.
BRILLIANT idea!!! No sense VOLUNTEERING info that they can ADD TO some OTHER charge.
I still think that Rush was a KNOWING, WILLING PARTICIPANT in a STING to STOP a drug operation. If so, he could "come clean" about his role to HELP STOP the drug ring.
Blast from the past: Check out this Free Republic thead from 9/2/99: WHO ELSE IS CONCERNED ABOUT RUSH SLURRING WORDS?
There were other similar threads, but that was the first one I managed to dig up.
While it seems likely he was on *something* at that time, though, it may well have been under a doctor's prescription at the time. I seem to remember him having back problems, for example.
Gee. and while he's at it, do you also want Rush to announce whether or not he ever had a drink and then drove a car, or if he ever have a beer before he turned 21, or if he smoked a cigarette before he was 18, or if he ever sold a car and didn't report the proceeds on his taxes, or if he ever mowed a lawn for $10 and didn't report it to the IRS, or if he ever littered a gum wrapper out the window, or if he ever copied off his friend during a test, or if he had overdue library books
I think it is rather arrogant of anyone to in essence demand Rush declare anything about his personal life at this point.
All we have here is some interview in some sleazy magazine by some sleazy convicted maid, who got paid $100,000 for a story.
After reading all these holier than thou posts on FR, I am starting to see why some libs can't stand some conservative attitudes.
To me, the ONLY way it makes sense with all the FACTS you have mentioned, is if HE was PART of a STING operation to CATCH drug dealers.
The public reaction really reminds me of the beginning of the movie called 12 Angry Men...everybody but ONE juror is ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED that the ACCUSED guy is GUILTY and are ready to CONVICT him. As I recall, slowly, one by one, the rest end up changing their minds to find him NOT GUILTY as the FACTS come out. It was a really good movie to OPEN EYES to only judging on the FACTS. The movie was redone a few years ago. Both versions are good.
That is just one more reason that makes me think Rush is actually a KNOWING, WILLING PARTICIPANT of a STING operation to CATCH drug dealers.
Go rent the movie 12 Angry men.
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